The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has today given a further boost to jobseekers by increasing the number of retraining places on the Sector-based Work Academy Programme (SWAP) to 80,000 for the next financial year – building on the 40,000 alr… read more
I am updating Parliament on the government’s plans to proceed with the local elections on 6 May 2021 and the statutory instruments I am laying today on nominations. Safe and secure elections are the cornerstone of our democracy. The government has lon… read more
The Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, George Eustice has written to Stella Kyriakides, EU Commissioner for Health and Food Safety about trade in live bivalve molluscs from Great Britain to the European Union for purification … read more
The UK Government today (8 February), invites the private sector to participate in a Competition to identify innovative product proposals to mobilise investment in sustainable infrastructure in emerging and developing countries. The Foreign Commonweal… read more
Behaviour change is the focus of an online plastic pollution workshop being held for Portsmouth communities today (Monday 8 February). The interactive event, jointly hosted by the Environment Agency and the University of Portsmouth, is aimed at repres… read more